Contentsvii Introduction (A Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories) essay by Philip Van Doren Stern1 Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer (1937) novelette by Stephen Vincent Benét95 Champion (1929) novelette by Ring W. Lardner [as by Ring Lardner]141 Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1932) short story by Conrad Aiken183 The Night the Ghost Got In (1933) short story by James Thurber
